Today, AAU joined ACE and 12 other higher education organizations on a letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders urging them to include Sec. 1763 of the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act in the final conferenced FY21 National Defense Authorization Act. Section 1763 “would allow international students to engage in online or distance education classes or programs that are determined necessary by an institution or program for the protection of health and safety until the end of the global COVID-19 pandemic.” The letter goes on to say that Sec. 1763 would allow students to travel to the U.S. to pursue their education regardless of how their program is being taught this semester and would further guarantee that they could remain in America for their spring semester in the likely event the pandemic continues into 2021.